(n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
Example Sentences:
(1) His problem was first diagnosed as "quinsy" and later modified to "Cynanche trachealis".
(2) Prolonged follow-up shows that the rate of recurrence of a quinsy can double compared to the recurrence rate under 5 years.
(3) Few considered the age of the patient or a history of a quinsy a contraindication to its use.
(4) We recommend abscess tonsillectomy should be performed for quinsy where expertise and facilities are available.
(5) Only a quarter of the patients had a significant recent history of tonsillitis but four had had a previous quinsy and six had had a previous tonsillectomy in childhood.
(6) A prospective study was carried out to evaluate the sensitivity of ultrasonography in diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess (Quinsy).
(7) Abscess tonsillectomy reduces patients lost to follow-up, avoids the social inconvenience of a second admission, effectively relieves symptoms, treats a contralateral abscess and is the only method of treating children with a quinsy.
(8) We conclude that quinsy tonsillectomy is the best management for PTA in a young work force when the optimal treatment choice is between interval or acute tonsillectomy.
(9) Alkaline phosphatase activity was examined in the human tonsils in fetal life and after repeated attacks of acute tonsillitis and in quinsy.
(10) Quinsy cases following tonsillectomy are very rare indeed, as proved by the scarce publications related to the subject.
(11) Witnesses claim that he died when he choked on a fly while enjoying a goblet of wine, but historian believe he may have died from a complication of tonsillitis called quinsy.
(12) Quinsy tonsillectomy may be carried out for the best abscess exposure.
(13) Despite this it remains relatively low and an uncomplicated quinsy does not warrant tonsillectomy.
(14) In 37 patients with unilateral quinsy put was collected with a syringe technique and bacteriologically examined.
(15) Significant differences were noted between the quinsy and interval tonsillectomy groups concerning the average number of days hospitalized (3.0 versus 4.5) and their respective convalescent periods (10.3 versus 17.3).
(16) Although a common enough condition in the general population, quinsy is rare in children and even rarer in infants.
(17) A prospective study for the treatment of quinsy was undertaken between January 1989 and September 1991.
(18) Studies were included in comparison tables if they involved the trial of one or more antibiotics against a control and there was an outcome in terms of reduction in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis, acute otitis media, acute sinusitis, quinsy or any symptoms related to the acute illness.
(19) The possibility of a subclinical contralateral peritonsillar abscess being present is an additional indication for proceeding with a quinsy tonsillectomy, especially in patients who remain febrile after apparent satisfactory drainage of the clinically evident abscess.
(20) 21 patients with non-rheumatic myocarditis, 25 convalescents following quinsy, and 58 donors.